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The New Jersey State Department of Education has released a list of every district that details how much taxpayers spend to send each child to a public school. Patch.com has the complete ranking from top-to-bottom, with the top 300 in bold (see list below).
The Hoboken School District spends $25,181* per student which tops all Hudson County School Districts and is ranked 16th among 650 school districts in the State of New Jersey. This places Hoboken in the top 2.5% of all districts in the State of New Jersey in per pupil spending.
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While per-pupil costs are increasing, the disparity in costs between each school district is quite large. Asbury Park pays nearly $60,000 per student in its district, while Edison pays a little more than $12,000.
* There are many ways of calculating per pupil costs. The number of $25,181 is a very conservative ("low") way of calculating per pupil costs. At the high end, Niche.com puts per pupil cost in Hoboken at $35,320 per student (see Figure 1). The reality is likely somewhere between these two calculations. For instance, according to the Hoboken Board of Education, 2019-20 there will be $54,000,000 (Figure 2) allocated to district spending. The latest enrollment numbers indicate 1964 students in the district (Figure 3). This comes to a ballpark number of $27,494 which is somewhere between the NJDOE number and the Niche.com number. Regardless, the point is the per pupil allocation is extraordinarily high even for comparable districts of similar size and/or demographics.
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| Figure 1: Niche.com CLICK TO ENLARGE |
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| Figure 2: Hoboken BOE Data CLICK TO ENLARGE |
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| Figure 3: October 15th Enrollment Report (ASSA) CLICK TO ENLARGE |
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